Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with th ...

Does eating soy make you more feminine? Is sunscreen actually bad for you? (No.) Here are five bad takes about human health, and the real truth behind them.

If you keep up with science headlines, you’ve probably noticed that a new “theory of everything” pops up pretty much every week, disappearing forever after ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether ...

We’ve all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have sho ...

Cats have a long history with humans, going back more than 9,000 years. Attracted to human settlements by the rodents that plagued (sometimes literally) our ancestors, cats ...

Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational people who rate evidence and analytical thinking above religion, ...

Across the globe, water scarcity is no longer a distant concern—it’s a present and growing crisis.  Today, more than 2.3 billion people live in regions facing water ...

Clambering through the bush on one of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, suddenly you spy a Komodo dragon in the clearing ahead. Forked tongue flickering; sharp, saw-like teeth glimme ...

The Three Mile Island nuclear generating station experienced disaster in 1979, then shutdown in 2019. Today, the plant is scheduled for an unprecedented restart in 2028. Thanks to Micr ...